Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-13
FRIGHT AND FUN AT SEA
Beauty with Paint and Powder Of
Transformation on Shipboard
which Caused a Night OF
Terror TO Become Laushable-Three sto-
ries of three Opera Boxes-some
Strange Things in Real Life.
Chicago Herald.

drowned one nlS0lj SOIue years aSOy Wueu
the Vile de Havre broke up in the egine
room, must have gone down with q
broad grin on nv face, for never will l
laugh so again. The accident happened
st O'Clock III the morning. In the
slumbers of midnight not only the sailor
boy lay, but so did the passengers, when
q dull crash shook US all awake, and then
after q little the old tub of boat just be-
gan to wallow and slop around in the
trough of the sea. Stewards rushed
through the passages, sailors were tear
ipg about on deck, the hoarse voice Of
the captain, and the gin and fog accents
of the first mate were heard spluttering
in excited French, and everybody turned
out. No one waited to button boots.
lady, whose beautiful hair had aroused
envy and provoked compliments
galore, tore out of her state
room with q little knob like the
tuft on Tam O'Shanter csp or the lid of
8 teapot, graCing her scalp; and as many
as dozen passengers whistled their con-
sternation as they had lett their articula-
ton with their teeth in trouble behind
them. The most awful disclosure was
made pY lady who wore gloves. She
| sorgon when she had her geological de-
lposits on and her mechanical arrange
Snents5in. Almost the first person on
deasSwas this maiden, and the head of
Medusa couldn't have been much more
dreadful. The fishhoOky Curls that clus-
tered round her intellectual temples were
drawn up on locks of white cotton wool,
and had cateTpillaTy as well as Capil-
| larry effect. she wore false teeth. They
were not in place, and her Athenian nose
| and chin nearly met. She had enointed
! her face with mixture OF tar and oil to
| take OF the brown of sea air. We had
noticed a stony glare behind her spec
! tacles in her off eye. Now We saw her
eye was of-away off-in her stateroom
! or her pocket, for it wasn't IN its socket.
II ever l thought Cyclops might have
| been dandy with mis- single eye tor the
! public good, that opinion has been pulled
up by the roots. Police! but she was a
| revelation.
wonder if little absolutely correct
| history OF three boxes at the opera, few
nights ago, would be interesting. I'll try
it. To begin In No, was large wo-
man with dissatisfied lines on her rather
! handsome countenance. With her was an
! old man and WOman-ps and ma. In the
rear was nervous, middle-aged, blonde
man, and this is their absolutely true
! story: The woman In white married a
! criminal years agC-a very successful
criminal-WhO had pot OF money. They
were having good time of it when the
| lsW laid It's strong arm on Mr.. Husband
and gave him long term in state prison.
The man put all his funds into his hand
some wife's hands, with directions that
| she lay out every dollar, if necessary, to
secure his release, During the first month
of his incarceration she met the nervous
| blonde who sat in the background the
other night at the opera. He was the
| poorest and weakest member Of family
! of Massachusetts gamblers Several
brothers had attained competency and no
toriety at their business, but this one had
always relied on his prowes5 with the
| softer fair sex for mis- living. Meeting
| the grass widow of the burglar he speedily
! saw his chance and improved it. She
concluded that the safety which a prison
grants was superior TO the dangers of
! liberty for poor Mr.. Husband. The prop
erJy was al her own legally. She made
the Massachusetts, gentleman Comtorta-
bic, and he has been easy in his mind ever
since. The criminal sill languishes in
prison, but with next fall comes release,
and If ever g man had cause TO make
! things warm for mortal woman it seems
to me this one has. We shall see.
In the next box was restless woman
in magnificent evening toilet, who got up
and sat down perhaps fifty times during
the evening. 1t is about eighteen years
since she first struck New York. She
was clothed on the occasion of our first
meeting in red flannel dress trimmed
with white canton flannel, on which were
little ink marks TO represent ermine, On
her head she wore q yellow jute wig,
such as the female impeTsonators Of ne
gro minstresy we're addicted to at that
period. She was funny, risky, i'll
attired girl, who essayed to be an actress.
After an unremunerstive season she
passed away, and New York knew her no
more, till one recent day she reappeared.
She had struck 1t rich. She came back
to wear French toilets, to dwell in her
own brown stone house, and to do the
heavy swell in magnificent apparel at the
opera house in private boxes.
In the next box this suspicious night
was tall, gray-haired man, and little
black bit of woman. An inconspicuous
pair, and yet such complicated chsrac-
ter of experience has been theirs that
do not know but out Of sll the people IN
der fire they are the most remarkable.
The man fell in love years ago with the
wife of mis- friend, and mis- friends wife
preferred him to her husband She was
pretty little brunette. with several
children. Out of this state of affairs
came a divorce and division of the
children. A girl and one boy were given
TO the mother. She planted THIS girl in o
boarding school, and shortly after the
divorce she married the friend Of her
husband ard began to raise family No. ..
She had got as far as two little boys, VINO
were playing with their half brother, when
their half sister came home home finished
from boarding school The step-father
had not got over being susceptible. tie
laid such remnant of heart as fifty
summers and as many hard, making
winters had left him, st the feet of his
wife's daughter. She, being green and
full of arithmetic, was pleased. The
first thing her mother knew she found
out sll s0out it. It was y sort OF anti
climax for the old woman, but she bowed
to the inevitable. She took so much
money and went abroad, The cid man
got divorce, married his wife's daugh-
ter, and family No. was started. There
they sat in box, he with 8 white head